A spelling challenge for the holidays

Learn how to spell these words:

Words with an oi spelling that make an oy sound

Foil

Soil

Coins

Point

Boiler

Words with an oy spelling that make an oy sound

Boy

Enjoy

Annoy

Destroy

Royal

Words with an ee spelling that make an e sound

Teeth

Agree

Meet

Words with an ea spelling that make an e sound

Dream

Repeat

Stream

Meat

Treat

Words with an ie spelling that make an e sound

Chief

Shield

Words with a y spelling that make an e sound

Funny

Crunchy

Words with an ey spelling that make an e sound

Donkey

Trolley

Words with a silent k

Know

Knife

Known

Knowledge (this is an extension word)

Words with a silent b

Climb

Thumb

Climbing

Words with a silent w

Wrist

Write

Wrote

Wrapper

Wrinkle] (this is an extension word)

Words with a wh spelling that make a w sound

Whale

Which

When

Whilst

Where

Plural words with an ies ending

Cherry

Cherries

Berry

Berries

Worry

Worries

Words with a th spelling that make a f sound

Think

Thirsty (this is an extension word)

Thought (this is an extension word)

Once you’ve practised spelling these words, write sentences containing each word. To extend yourself try to hit your Writing target in each sentence.

An arithmetic challenge for the holidays

Everyone has worked so hard on the weekly Arithmetic Challenges and all that hard work was rewarded with some excellent results on the recent tests. To further improve your arithmetic skills, work through these tasks over the holidays:

Task 1 – Halving and dividing by 2

Task – calculate half of all the even numbers from 2 up to 30.

Count in 2s, starting at 0 and stopping at 30. Write down all the numbers you counted.

Write your answers in these three different ways:

1) Half of 20 is 10;

2) 1/2 of 20 = 10; and

3) 20 / 2 = 10.

 

Task 2 – Subtracting by counting on

Task – calculate the difference between any two 2-digit numbers by counting on from the smallest number to the biggest number.

Choose any 2-digit number then choose another 2-digit number that is smaller than it.

Start at the smaller number and count on until you reach the bigger number.

Write your answer as a number sentence, e.g. 53 – 38 = 15

 

Task 3 – Calculating one third of numbers

Task – calculate one third of numbers up to 30.

Count in 3s, starting at 0 and stopping at 30. Write down all the numbers you counted.

Write your answers in these three different ways:

1) One third of 30 is 10;

2) 1/3 of 30 = 10; and

3) 30 / 3 = 10.

 

Task 4 – Solving subtraction problems

Task – use adding knowledge to solve subtraction problems

Add together two 1-digit numbers.

Then turn the addition fact into a subtraction problem, e.g. 8 + 9 = 17 so 17 – 8 = 9 and 17 – 9 = 8.

Ask a partner to write subtraction problem for you and solve it by using your addition skills, e.g.    – 7 = 6, I know the answer is 13 because 6 + 7 = 13 so

13 – 7 = 6.

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Weekly Spellings – est suffix

Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. The theme for this week’s spellings is ‘using the est suffix’.

There are 10 pairs of words to learn (the root word plus the word with the est suffix), also there is an extension challenge to learn an additional 5 pairs of words.

Root word ends in a consonant so add est

  1. thick – thickest
  2. tall – tallest
  3. smart – smartest

Root word ends in an e so add st

  1. close – closest
  2. nice – nicest
  3. large – largest

Root word ends in an y so change the y to an i and add est

  1. heavy – heaviest
  2. happy – happiest

Root word has a short vowel sound so double the consonant and add est

  1. hot – hottest
  2. big – biggest

 Extension Challenge – mix of spelling rules for the est suffix

  1. rich – richest
  2. strong – strongest
  3. wide – widest
  4. smelly – smelliest
  5. safe – safest

Additional writing challenge – write these words in a sentence that also contains contracted words (e.g. can’t, I’m, she’ll, won’t)

That huge slice of Christmas Cake was the thickest piece of cake I’ve ever eaten!

 

Halving and dividing by 2 (Halving and dividing by 2 give the same answer)

Below is an outline of how to develop halving and dividing by 2 skills:

  1. Learn the 2 times table from 0 x 2 = 0 all the way to 15 x 2 = 30.
  2. Learn related division facts, 30 / 2 = 15.
  3. Use the words halving and dividing when calculating division facts, 30 / 2 = 15 so half of 30 is 15 and 30 halved is 15.

Extension Challenge

  1. Extend your division and halving knowledge up to 100. If half of 4 is 2 then half of 40 is 20. If 10 divided by 2 is 5 then 100 divide by 2 is 50.

The tests will be on Friday 11th December.